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District reports midyear gains on winter formative assessments, highlights third-grade reading progress
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Smith and instructional staff reviewed winter I-Ready formative assessment results showing above‑average math and reading performance in several grades, a district focus on interventions and LETRS training for early literacy, and use of booster groups ahead of March testing.
Doctor Smith, the district superintendent, opened the instructional report and introduced Miss Jody Wright to present winter formative assessment results and intervention plans.
Wright said the district administers I‑Ready three times a year and uses the platform's diagnostic plus a personalized pathway and toolbox for targeted instruction. She said the winter administration (given in December) shows Spartanburg 01 performing above national norms in several grades, and she highlighted third grade reading results: "In third grade ... we are at 60% in the green," Wright said, praising teachers, interventionists and families for the progress. Wright also said several grade-level math results are above national year‑to‑date norms and that fewer students are two or more grade levels below (the district's “reds” are…
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